Kevin West

A woman who says her trucker boyfriend beat her and held her captive for six months thanked a janitor and Tennessee police for answering a plea for help she scrawled on a restroom wall.

The man who has been second-in-charge of the Nebraska-Iowa Immigration and Naturalization Service office is transferring to Georgia.

Organizers of the African-American Monument, the first celebrating blacks in Savannah, are promising a grand unveiling July 27 even though nearly 600,000 is still needed to build and install it.

The former adviser of Fort Valley State University's student newspaper has settled a federal lawsuit for $192,000 after claiming he lost his job because the paper published articles critical of the university.

The state rolled out a new college savings plan Wednesday that uses tax incentives to entice families to save.

The Chipman Union stocking factory, which closed last year and put more than 700 people out of work, will reopen this summer under new management led by Union Point Mayor Ben Stewart.

Former Dallas Cowboys lineman Nate Newton Wednesday pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking charges in a plea agreement.

The Chipman Union stocking factory, which closed last year and put more than 700 people out of work, will reopen this summer under new management led by Union Point Mayor Ben Stewart.

Researchers have found that the dialect spoken by young blacks in cities is spreading to their counterparts in parts of the rural South.

The Postal Service has reached a tentative five-year contract agreement with one of its largest unions, the National Association of Letter Carriers.